Overview
- This open access book discusses the roles and benefits of effective learning society
- Provides cutting edge research in exploring the important impact on learning societies of current areas of disruption
- Employs 21st-century technologies in transforming learning societies
Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (EDAP, volume 58)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Introduction
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Learnability and the Learning Crisis
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Future-Proofing Postbasic Education
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Communities as Learning Platforms
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Learning Societies and Industry 4.0
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About this book
This open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders. The think pieces argue for a learning society as a major driver of change with far-reaching influence on learning to serve the needs of economies and societies.
The book is a testimonial to the importance of ‘learning communities.’ It highlights the pivotal role that can be played by non-traditional actors such as city and urban planners, citizens, transport professionals, and technology companies. This collection seeks to contribute to the discourse on strengthening the fabric of a learning society crucial for future economic and social development, particularly in the aftermath of the coronavirus disease.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Shanti Jagannathan has over 25 years of experience with reforms and transformation in school education, technical and vocational education and training and higher education in Asia. She has led policy research studies on skills for greening economies, Asia’s knowledge-based economies, and implications of industry 4.0 on education and training. Her recent work includes a guidance note on Education and the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Asia and the Pacific, designing and judging hackathons for digital reskilling and upskilling for displaced workers and digital platforms for education. She works on education sector policies and provides technical advice to ADB’s lending and knowledge partnerships for education. She has over a dozen publications from her work in ADB, including two previous books with Springer and special issues of the journals ‘Prospects’ and ‘International Journal of Training Research.’ She is currently Principal Education Specialist at ADB.
Rupert Maclean AO is (concurrently) Adjunct Professor of International Education at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne; University of Tasmania, Hobart; Education University of Hong Kong; and University Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia. He has held two United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chairs on Technical and Vocational Education and Training, one in Hong Kong, China, and the other in Qatar. Between 2007 and 2015 he was an Honorary Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Department of Education. In December 2018 he was appointed a consultant of the Belt and Road Alliance for International Applied Education and Training, People’s Republic of China. In 2011 he was awarded an Order of Australia (AO) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for distinguished service to improving education and schooling in developing countries, particularly through UNESCO.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption
Editors: Sungsup Ra, Shanti Jagannathan, Rupert Maclean
Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0983-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Asian Development Bank 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0982-4Published: 23 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0985-5Published: 23 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-0983-1Published: 22 May 2021
Series ISSN: 1573-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 321
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 55 illustrations in colour
Topics: Education, general, Professional & Vocational Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Study and Learning Skills